Cladocora

Cladocora

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 155 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 155 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 155 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 155 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 155 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 155 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 155 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 155 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 155 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 155 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 12 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

155 occurrences of Cladocora on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

155 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

48 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.40°ESalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°ECardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 28.67°N, 34.58°ESantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WGarra? — 25.67°N, 29.92°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WNago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WLares — 18.28°N, 66.87°W

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The named rock units Cladocora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladocora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cladocora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,415 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Cladocora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

84 references

Each of the 155 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 72 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cladocora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1834